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THE BUNCH OF GRAPES , Lime Street , Leadenhall MarKet , E . G . Excellent accommodation for Lodges of Instruction . Handsome Dining Booms , fitted with electric light , where Dinners , Lunches and Suppers are served a la carte , also Private Dinners by arrangement . All Wines , Spirits , Cigars , & c , of the best quality . The Confidence Lodge of Instruction meets at this establishment every Wednesday evening , at 7-30 . Bro . C . J . GOOVEARTS , Manager .

The Theatres, &C.

The Theatres , & c .

Adelphi . —Saturday , 10 th March , Bonnie Dundee . Avenue . —8 , An Old Admirer . 8-45 , A Message from Mars . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 3 . Criterion . —8-20 , A Pair of Knickerbockers . 9 , His Excellency the Governor . Matinee , Saturday , 3 . Daly's . —8-15 , San Toy . Matinee , Saturday , 2-30 . Drury Lane . —730 , Jack and the Beanstalk . Matinee , Wednesday and

Saturday , 1-30 . Duke of York's . —8 , A Bad Penny . 8-30 , Miss Hobbs . Matinee , Saturday , 2-30 . Gaiety . —8 , The Messenger Boy . Matinee , Saturday , 2 . Garriok . —8-15 , Booties Baby . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 2-30 . Globe . —Saturday , 17 th March , 8-15 , A broken Halo . 9 , Nurse . Haymarket . —8 , The Bugle Gall . 8-50 , She Stoops to Conquer . Matinee

Saturday , 2-15 . Her Majesty's . —8 , A Midsummer Night's Dream . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 2 . Lyceum . - 8 , The Eivals , and Hamlet alternately . Lyric—8 , Florodora . Matinee , Saturday , 2-30 . Prince of Wales's . —8 , Don Juan ' s Last Wager . Matinee , Saturday 2 . Princess's . —8 , Drink .

Royalty . —8-15 , Mrs . Jordan . 9 , Magda . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 2-30 . Savoy . —8-15 , The Rose of Persia . Matinee , Saturday , 2-30 . St . James ' s . —8-30 , Rupert of Hentzau . Wednesday and Saturday , 2-30 , The Prisoner of Zeada .

Strand . —8-15 , The Lady Bookie . 9 , Facing the Music . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 3 . Wyndham ' s . —8-30 , Dandy Dick . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 2-30 Alexandra . —Next week , 7-45 , The Belle of New York . Opera House , Crouch End . —Next week , 8 , My Girl . Surrey . —Next week , 7-45 , A leap for life .

Alhambra . —7-45 , Variety Entertainment . Napoli , & c . Aquarium . —The World's great Show . Varied Performances , daily . Empire . —7 " 50 , Variety Entertainment . Round the Town Again , & c . London Pavilion . —8 , Variety Entertainment . A dream of fair women , & c Oxford . —7-30 , Variety Entertainment , & c . Saturday , 2-15 also .

Palace—7-45 , Variety Entertainment . New American Biograph , & c . Saturday , 2 also . Royal . —7-30 , Variety Company . Saturday , 2-30 also . Tivoli . —7-30 , Variety Entertainment . La Belle Siffleuse , & o . Saturday , 2-15 also .

Agricultural Hall . —8 , Mohawk Minstrels . Crystal Palace . —Varied attractions daily . Egyptian Hall . —3 and 8 , Mr . J . N . Maskelyne ' s entertainment . London Hippodrome . —2 and 8 , Giddy Ostend , & o . Madame Tussaud ' s ( Baker Street Station ) . —Open daily . Portrait models of modern celebrities , & c . Moore and Burgess Minstrels ( St . James's Hall ) . —Every evening at 8 , Monday , Wednesday , and Saturday at 3 and 8 . Polytechnic—3 , Our Navy , & c . Saturdays , 3 and 8 .

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^^ Sf ^^^ SATUBDAY , 10 TH MABCH 1900 .

Farewell Banquet To Lord Sandhurst.

FAREWELL BANQUET TO LORD SANDHURST .

NEVEB in the annals of Masonry in India has a more enthusiastic and genuinely sincere demonstration of appreciation of Masonic worth been experienced than that which was witnessed at Freemasons' Hall , Bombay , on 9 th ult ., on the occasion of the farewell banquet given to His Excellency Lord

Sandhurst Pro District Grand Master of Bombay and Grand Master of All Scottish Freemasonry in India . From the moment the idea of giving a farewell entertainment to His Excellency was mooted applications for tickets literally poured in , so intensely popular was the movement , and this was scarcely to be wondered

at , for , perhaps , no Member of the Craft has ever done so much for Masonry in the Western Presidency as His Excellency the Governor , to whose influence and exertions are due the splendid Temple in which the local Lodges now have so comfortable a

habitation . Masons from all parts of the Presidency , and even from Districts beyond its limits , came down to Bombay to take part in the proceedings , the assembled company including as many native Brethren as Europeans , if not more . His Excellency arrived at about six o ' clock , and shortly

Farewell Banquet To Lord Sandhurst.

afterwards entered the Grand Lodge , accompanied by the Officers of both the Grand Lodges . The Lodge having been opened , Brother Allen in the absence of Brother I . M . Shields Deputy Pro Grand Master read a joint Besolution of the two Grand Lodges .

The Besolution , having been duly seconded and spoken to by Dr . John Pollen , Sir Balkrishna Batwadeker , Bros . K . B . Gama , Mahomed Hoosein Hakim , and other Brethren , was put to the Lodge and carried with acclamation .

H . E . the Governor , who met with a most enthusiastic reception , in replying said it had been remarked by more than one speaker that the meeting that evening was tinged with sorrow because he was so soon to leave them . He could , however , assure them that kindly as that sentiment had been

expressed , it did not quite meet the measure of his own feelings in regard to themselves in the Grand Lodge that evening . It was not a very easy thing to cut one's self suddenly adrift from a vast Society of Masons , after having been so closely connected with them since he first came to Bombay five years ago , and they

might rest assured that , far as he would be away from them a few weeks hence , he would not forget those with whom he had been acquainted , and the many evenings he had spent in their company . Many compliments had been passed by the various speakers upon the fact that they owed the Hall in which they were

then assembled to his initiation and its completion to his energies . He could not help saying that he thought that picture was a little overdrawn , and that the public and fraternal spirit of Masonry would sooner or later have accomplished the building of the Hall , which he was proud to say had been accomplished at a time when he held sway over both the Constitutions . He

admitted that the Hall was a monument of himself among Masons in Bombay , and while it had been pointed out by some speakers that his memory would last within its walls , he would tell them that there was one other thing that he would cherish even more , and that was that he might be remembered and thought of and remain in the heart and memory of Freemasons .

His Excellency then made allusion to the fact that he would in all probability be succeeded in the dual Masonic office he held by the new Governor , Lord Northcote , and congratulated every Mason on having secured so experienced a member of the Craft . Turning to the question of Masonry itself , His Excellency said it

had frequently struck him that if there was one country m the world where there was a great field for Masonry and where Masonry could do , if possible , more good than in any other country , it was the Indian Empire , because what they wanted in that great and vast country was for all of them to be brought more and more together , and it was Freemasonry which was

calculated and intended to so bring them together . Concluding his speech , His Excellency said that if he had been able to do anything towards an improvement in the relations between the two sister Constitutions he was more than amply repaid . He would again assure them that he would always take the keenest interest in Freemasonry in Bombay .

The Lodge having been duly closed , the company adjourned to the banqueting hall , where His Excellency performed the ceremony of unveiling the picture of Bro . J . W . Smith . The dining tables had been most charmingly decorated by fair hands , and the dinner was admirably served . At the conclusion of the repast the usual toasts were honoured , that of the health of the

Governor being received with musical honours and vociferous cheering . What was styled , and very appropriately , a " Social union " followed the banquet , and was very numerously attended by the wives and lady frieuds of the Brethren , who greatly enjoyed the capital programme of vocal and instrumental music provided for their delectation . — " Advocate of India . "

Sonnets Of The Greek Mythology, No. 9.

Sonnets of the Greek Mythology , No . 9 .

TO CALLIOPE . GODDESS of Grace I pray impart to me That eloquence which none but thou has got ; Come when I call thee , coy Calliope—Come to me from thy Sacred Sylvan grot ; So that my words may issue full and free In boundless buoyancy serene and bright ,

Swift as the sunbeam ' s radiant , sparkling light Unfettered as the restless , surging sea . So that I sing in brave heroic measure , Triumphantly and gloriously sublime ; No dull despondency to mar my pleasure Nought but one long , continuous , swelling chime ; Vibrating with its majesty of motion The highest heaven and the deepest ocean . Bradford . OHAS . E . EOBSHAW , M . A .

The Provincial Grand Master of Sussex H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught , with the Duchess and suite , reached Dublin on Tuesday morning to take up his official duties there . Pie was most cordially received .